According to a report, the close family friend is attentive to Maxim Naumov, the artistic skater that lost his parents in the plane crash last week about Washington DC DC.
The married Russian skaters, Shishkova and Vadim Naumov Evgenia were among the 67 people who lost their lives when an American Airlines flight collided with a Black Hawk helicopter in the last air at night.
No one survived the collision that sent both the commercial plane and the army helicopter that collapsed in the frigid Potomac River. Shishkova and Naumov's bodies were found on Friday.
Maxim, 23, was not aboard flight 5342 with his parents and since then he has faced the incomprehensible after losing his mother and his father.
Following the tragedy, a “very dear friend” of his late parents is being treated to Maxim.
'I know that Maxim has someone with him 24 hours,' Ekaterina 'Katia' Gordeeva, a Russian teammate from Shishkova and Naumov at the 1994 Olympic Games said PEOPLE.
Maxim Naumov (right) lost to his parents Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov last week
Russian figurators Shishkova and Naumov died in the Washington DC plane accident
Following the tragedy, a 'very dear friend' of his late parents is being treated to Maxim of his late parents.
“I know a couple who is with him right now,” added Gordeeva, who was also a close friend of the family.
“They were not yet in Washington, but … that morning (of the plane crash), we all connected immediately, all the people of Simsbury,” Gordeeva said, referring to the city of Connecticut, where Shishkova and Naumov lived when first He arrived in the United States until the early 00.
Shishkova and Naumov competed alongside Gordeeva and their late husband Sergei Grinkov at the 1994 Olympic Games. Gordeeva and Grinkov claimed the Olympic gold in 1994 and 1988.
Shishkova and Naumov could not do the podium at the winter games in Lillehammer.
However, height races occurred only one month later in 1994, when world champions were crowned in Chiba, Japan.
They also claimed money and bronze in the editions of the 1995 and 1993 tournament, respectively.
According to the reports, after their own races in the ice, Shishkova and Naumov moved to the United States in 1998, where they began to train.
They moved to Simsbury, Connecticut and worked as couples coaches at the Connecticut International Skating Center. Later they moved to the Boston skating club in February 2017.
Ekaterina 'Katia' Gordeeva was a friend of the skaters and competed with them in 1994
Shishkova and Naumov were world champions crowned in Chiba, Japan in 1994
Gordeeva said that much of the Russian skating community is established in Simsbury, creating a very close community. The city of Connecticut is where he approached Shishkova and Naumov, even joining Shishkova during his pregnancies.
“I know that my daughter approached him because they are closer to her,” he said about his daughter Elizaveta. 'My daughter was so devastated yesterday. She said: “I have to go. I have to go see him right now.”
Shishkova and Naumov were traveling back to DC on flight 5342 after attending the artistic skating championships of the United States in Kansas.
The American artistic skating has confirmed that several skaters, coaches and their relatives were aboard the flight, and had been returning home from the National Development Camp that takes place in conjunction with the national championships.
It is believed that Shishkova and Naumov have been traveling with a group of young skaters, returning from the competition.
Maxim had also competed in Kansas, where he took fourth place, but had gone before his parents on a separate flight.